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  • Europe’s private debt market is growing, as companies seek funding diversity and longer maturities than offered by bank loans. GlobalCapital estimates there was €45bn of issuance of private debt to institutional investors last year.
  • Even from a distance last week's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) paper on corporate bond market liquidity in the years following the crisis smelled funny. Unfortunately, the closer you got the bigger the pong.
  • Developments, or the lack thereof, in finalising the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II, don’t reflect well on European institutions’ abilities to work together.
  • It’s hard to pinpoint where the blame should lie for this week’s postponed L-Bank deal. Maybe for once none lies within the market.
  • Anheuser-Busch InBev’s extraordinary €13.25bn bond, unthinkable only two months ago, has expanded the limits of what is possible in Europe's corporate bond market.
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    “I’m not going to let that stand,” said Bank of England governor Mark Carney, calmly.